Thank you, Madame Chair. Thanks, Mr. Bossio.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your presentations.
I'm not a regular member of this committee, although I've met many of you before. I'm the chair of the natural resources committee, and it's that capacity that brings me here to talk to you.
Our committee has been working collectively—in fact, all of our members have been working and sort of pushing in the same direction—trying to find ways that we can help the resource sector. My conversation, notwithstanding some of the comments you've heard from around this table.... We don't hear those kinds of comments at our committee, which is quite a refreshing approach, frankly.
Mr. Bloomer, my question is for you.
I was quite surprised to hear your level of pessimism, in particular the comment that you don't see how another pipeline could ever be built. I think you were backing off from that a little when you were thinking about your mother, and I was glad to hear that your mother was more of an optimist.
My question is this. You're saying that Bill C-69 is what made you make that statement, but our government has approved three pipelines since we came to power two years ago. It's done so under the guise of the interim provisions that were implemented in January 2016, which formed the foundation of Bill C-69.
I'm wondering how you reconcile your position with those approvals, given that it's our government that approved and in fact championed those three pipeline approvals.